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...STRAINED LOWER BACK CLIMBING BACK ON LOADER AFTER FUELING IT UP.BACK IS HURTING.
WAS LIFTING TOP DOOR ON SCREEN TO PUT BASCK ON WHEN HE FELT A SHARP AND BURNING PAIN FROM LOWER ABDOMEN AND GROIN AREA.
I.NAME WAS SELECTING 8 IN TO 12 IN CHUNKS OF ROCK FOR BLDG STONE HE PICKED UP A CHUNK OF ROCK AND WENT TO THROW IT INTO FRONT END LOADER BUCKET THE ROCK BROKE IN HALF HIS HANDS CAME TOGETHER AND THE PIECE IN HIS RT AHND STRUCK HIS LEFT THUMB CAUSING A LACERATION
SUBJECT WAS HAND SELECTING BLDG STONE. HE BENT DOWN TO PICK UP PIECE OF ROCK. HE SAYS THAT HE HIT HIS RIGHT WRIST AGAINST SHARP CORNER OF ROCK. IT PUNCTURED SKIN & CAUSED HIS HAND TO SWELL.